Offbeat attractions in the United States include strange roadside attractions and wonderfully weird museums. The United States is full of interesting sights that don’t always show up in guidebooks, and these 50 offbeat attractions prove it.
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Iolani Palace (Gage Skidmore)
Dog Bark Park Inn (Alan Levine)
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Abita (Jon Evans)
MOBA (Chris Devers)
Poor Traits (Chris Devers)
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Pinball (John Kannenberg)
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SPAM exterior (Elvis Kennedy)
Dumas interior (Orin Blomberg)
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Clown Motel (Wes Dickinson)
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Ranch sign (Amy Meredith)
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Cadillac Ranch (Richie Diesterheft)
Roden Crater (Arizona’s Earth Science Photo Gallery)
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Bobbleheads (Pete)
Rockmen Guardians (Aaron Warren)
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London Bridge (Daniel Brothers)
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McCulloch (Jim Gray)
Quartz (Science Photo Library)
Colorado beauty (Steve Whiston – Fallen Log Photography)
Coral castle (Joe Raedle)
Coarl Ed (Joe Raedle)
Museum of Clean quote (Kathrin Ziegler)
Paint quote (Westend61)
Umbrella quote (Fancy/Veer/Corbis)
Bad art quote (Jose Luis Pelaez Inc)
US Mexico (filo)
Kirk Douglas (Hulton Archive)
Reagan (David Hume Kennerly)
Judge (Comstock)
“Bonita” (Rppsycho)
Roller skating quote (Colors Hunter – Chasseur de Couleurs)
Dumb Guy Stuff Museum (Caspar Benson)
Edison lightbulb (Hulton Archive)
Edison’s team (Keystone)
Fontana Dam (Fotosearch)
T Roosevelt (Hulton Archive)
TR National Park (John Elk)
Thunderstorm (George Pachantouris)
Circus (Tim Boyle)
Samoas (John Moore)
Thin Mint (Mat Hayward)
Care packages (Print Collector)
Comedy1 (Alan Thornton)
Comedy2 (Simon Brenmer)
Run blocking (Steve Dykes)
Zagar (Michael Loccisano)
Vikings (Hulton Archive)
Knights Templar (Hulton Archive)
Leaning quote (Hill Street Studios)
Great Smoky Mountains (Wolfgang Kaehler)
Safety pin (Angelo Gallici / EyeEm)
Toothbrush (Javier Zayas Photography)
James Monroe (National Archive)
Chemical quote (Bill Varie)
Yellowstone (Matt Anderson Photography)
Grand Primatic Spring (Ignacio Palacios)
PCR Test (Maskot)
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Bonsai quote (John S Lander)
Desecheo (Ken Cedeno)
Yarn (Jeffrey Coolidge)
Vent (Ratnakorn Piyasirisorost)
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Rocky Flats (United States Department of Energy)
Flates fire (United States Department of Energy)
Voynich (JovanCormac)
Liliʻuokalani (KAVEBEAR)
Committee of Safety (Hawaii State Archives)
Didusch drawing (AgadaUrbanit)
MOBA Camera (Kafka Liz)
Dizzy Dean (Wizardman)
Oregon Trail (Feydey)
Titanic Museum (Brad A. Totman)
Wahpeton (North Dakota State Library)
Spiral Jetty (Yonidebest)
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Bonsai Museum (Sarah Stierch)
43 Comments
I would love to see a video about the strangest cities in each state. We all have those outliers that have odd quirks. They usually have their own name like "the River People" or "the West Counties".
its Wap-e-ton
30,951,360 cans of Spam (by my calculations) should cover the length of the US-Mexico border.
Like Toast Angler said..the spook light here in southwest Missouri near State Line Road is one of the coolest attractions. Much better than a hair place that’s closed and a very publicized Titanic. A little disappointed in the lack of time spent on Missouri.
Chattanooga, TN also has the International Towing and Recovery Museum.
Erin is an amazing presenter and I watch all of her videos. This guy seems like the substitute teacher that none of the kids listen to, so he just puts on old Bill Nye episodes on VHS so he can go cry in the hallway.
Also while in New Haven, CT, check out Louie's Lunch, birthplace of the hamburger.
Really? For Maine you didn't go for the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland?
112,122,776 Spam cans to trace the US-Mexico border.
WOW! I didn't expect to see the Rockmen!!! So awesome! I Iove these videos 😊
Would love to add another tiny attraction for the state of Mississippi! It's called the Pocket Museum and it's in Hattiesburg. Originally the location was nothing but an alley behind the local Saenger Theater, but it's been transformed into a very quirky and fun space, full of "little people" (tiny figurines) in various whimsical miniature scenes – as well as scavenger hunts that are changed on a regular basis, and an "art depository" where people can bring their own tiny art and leave it to be claimed by another or simply appreciated for a time.
Alaskan here, I KNEW the Hammer Museum would get a mention. 🙂
The Glore Psychiatric museum in St. Joseph, Missouri could be added to your list! The History Underground channel has a good video about it.
If I am correct, and I believe I am, It was Tesla himself that invented electricity. It, like everything else he invented, was stolen from him by other inventors of the time….
Oklahoma: The Museum of Osteology is great and underrated.
I would like to leave an honorary mention to the Yooper Tourist Trap in upper Is peninsula Michigan. A wonderful collection of taxidermy animals holding humans for display, the world's only double decker outhouse, and the world's largest revolver. It also contains a gift shop of fantastic gag gifts one of which was a Fart Extinguisher that ironically was highly flammable…
Montana should have been the land of a thousand Buddha’s. Even though it is blessed and picked by a buddist priest, it’s just random to be in the middle of a Native American Reservation
You forgot the PA Houdini Museum.
Unfortunately I have been to the Bobblehead museum 😐
Loved your video. My estimate for how many cans of Spam it would take to span the border of the continental U.S. is 87,516,000. I hope my math is correct!
Why is this guy's fingernails painted different colors?
From Washington State here. Have you heard of Jake the Alligator Man at Marsh's Free Museum? His 75th birthday is celebrated every year in August and he's probably my favorite attraction here, though the Mary Lou Beatty Memorial Park (A grassy crack in a sidewalk maybe 2 inches across with a plaque installed) in Olympia is a close second
You did a great job. Wipe the corners of your mouth and be a little less stoned. Nice voice, good cadence.
My favorite off-beat thing in Wisconsin is House on the Rock, outside of Madison. It's full of a little bit of (exaggeration) everything from this video and then some.
about 38.1 million cans of spam to cover the US-Mexico border?
I would have thought MN's largest Candy store would have made it for MN. But I'll need to check out the spam museum.
69 Million cans
my geuss is pibillion.
Did you say hollowed out pipe, what the hell is that
Utah's Gilgal Garden is the real go-to. Joseph Smith sphinx is unrivaled
There's a hammer museum, but no hammer pants?!? that museum is incomplete.
Since you guys like morbid things as well I should mention Michigan's anatomy of death museum is pretty neat.
I gotta say this: if I were playing mini golf, and following in my own personal great tradition of completely sucking at the "game" [games are supposed to be fun for all, not fun for a few] and my eye were to catch a glimpse of that bleeping gnome mocking me, I'd probably get arrested for assaulting a "joyful garden gnome playing golf."
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WAHpeton, not wahPETon.
Also, that's definitely odd, but you can see New Salem Sue from the interstate. She's a darn big cow.
When can we all agree that a statue of an object does not in fact make it that object.
Well the explanation for Arkansas makes some sense because the biggest quartz vain in the world runs directly under the state of Arkansas
21:22 South Carolina
Please don't guess at the pronunciation of Hawaiian names. The correct pronunciation is readily accessible and it's insulting when people get it wrong.
The most "offbeat" attraction in Wyoming are the Yellowstone hot springs?? How lazy.
You have a mellow, relaxing voice and a nice cadence when you speak. 👍
Lol were his fingernails chrome?
Right on
No mention of the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota?
No time stamps? I'm not watching 30 minutes when I only care about a couple states.